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by arethuza 5864 days ago
If the classes in your system vary a lot in behavior but not in their internal state then mapping to a database can be straightforward.

With lots of variations in object structure things can be horrible - witness designs that have more tables than most tables have rows.

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> With lots of variations in object structure things can be horrible - witness designs that have more tables than most tables have rows.

This is the problem document databases are designed to solve. :)

Maybe someone should create an ERP system based on one then!